Sentences with phrase «jesus in a deeper way»

I sat in her room for a good hour yesterday debating on bribing her to stay home, yet praying that she would have an incredible adventure this weekend and encounter Jesus in a deeper way.

Not exact matches

But as they unsettle, they will stir your imagination with the hope of a deeper, more substantial and more joyful way of following Jesus in the 21st century.

In Mark's world, «preparing the way of the Lord» usually looks like standing hip - deep in the mire of some stable trying to corral a donkey for JesuIn Mark's world, «preparing the way of the Lord» usually looks like standing hip - deep in the mire of some stable trying to corral a donkey for Jesuin the mire of some stable trying to corral a donkey for Jesus.

as Flannery O'Connor put it in Wiseblood: «there was a deep, black, wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sinning.»

This catholicity of the cross is made concrete for von Balthasar in the way that Jesus» death fulfills the deepest intuitions of the world's religions.

IE «willful» I will not go into deep explanation but simply stated, this passage is not speaking to people who commit sins on purpose but to people who practice sin as an accepted way of life.not people like you and I and the apostle Paul who says in Phillipians 312Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

Second, Korean Christian faith, unlike the «ghetto faiths» of many other Asians, bears witness to the ways in which Korean Christians, moved by their deep faith in Jesus Christ as the Suffering Messiah, joined other Koreans to resist historical forces of injustice that were denying Korean people of life, justice and dignity.

I regard a Christology as modern if it uses every relevant insight of modern knowledge to differentiate the historical element in its interpretation of the event Jesus Christ from the mythological, and remembers that the actual event comprises only history and the ontological reality of God's presence and action within that history — whilst the mythology expresses that reality in ways which may indeed convey deep truth, yet have in themselves the status not of ontological reality but of poetry.

Yet he does not seem to recognize that this can only mean one thing: The revelation of God in Christ must come to you and me by way of a kind of interchange between individuals in deep communion, whereby the meaning of past events can possess our minds and transform our lives, even as it did in the fellowship that formed around Jesus.

I define evangelism as «living our lives in such a way that we reflect the person of Jesus and in so doing we draw those who are not in relationship into a relationship with Jesus, and those who are already in relationship with Jesus into deeper relationship.»

But if Christian experience of genuine exemplification of divine aim among us through Jesus Christ is valid at all as I have described it, this unification and transformation of humanity will exhibit striking coherence from the perspective of the historical Jesus, and congruence with him, and will manifest the «truth» of Christian faith in a way that is deeper than mere doctrine.

Such «religious intuitions» are the «somewhat exceptional elements of our conscious experience» that Whitehead seeks to elucidate as evidence for God's consequent experience of the world.9 Only a living person experiencing a whole series of divine aims, sensitive to the way in which these shift, grow, and develop in response to our changing circumstances can become aware of their source as dynamic and personal, meeting our needs and concerns.10 Jesus, full of the Spirit, knew God personally in this intimate way, until these aims were taken from him in the hour of his deepest need, when he experienced being forsaken by God on the cross.

This was very significant to them and allowed us to share Jesus with them in a deeper way.

Of course, we know from Jewish history that this repentance did not last long, for very soon after Jesus began his ministry, many of the Jews reverted back to their old ways of living, and ended up rejecting Christ as the Messiah, and this led them deeper and deeper into sin, until in A.D. 70 they did experience the negative consequences of sin, and the nation of Israel was destroyed.

Share in Jeremy's revelation concerning Jesus» crucifixion, and how this «vision» of the crucifixion (hence «crucivision») will make you fall in love with Jesus all over again, in a new and deeper way than you could imagine.